Roots of Nationalism

Lotte Jensen is Professor of Dutch Cultural and Literary History at Radboud University, Nijmegen and Principal Investigator of the NWO-funded Vici project Dealing with Disasters. The Shaping of Local and National Identities in the Netherlands (1421-1890), which investigates the impact of natural disasters on Dutch local and national identities from a cultural-historical perspective. She has published books on Napoleon’s legacy in the Netherlands, Dutch literary history and the emergence of Dutch identity. Her most recent book is a cultural history of Dutch floods: Wij en het water. Een Nederlandse geschiedenis (De Bezige Bij 2022).

• Introduction, PART ONE: THE MODERNIST PARADIGM CONTESTED, PART TWO: THE GENEALOGY OF NATIONAL IDENTITY, PART THREE: NEGATIVE MIRROR IMAGING, PART FOUR: MAPS, LANGUAGE AND CANONISATION, PART FIVE: NATION IN THE AGE OF REVOLUTION, LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS, LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, INDEX